Changing Patterns of Family Life - Same-Sex Relationships | A Level Sociology - Families

welcome to this to 30 new sociology topic video looking at changing patterns of family life focusing on same-sex relationships there have been an increasing number of same-sex relationships in the UK and it's estimated that almost 1 in 10 relationships is between partners of the same sex well this number is increased significantly over the years and

sociologists look at some of the reasons for the growth of same-sex relationships there are several reasons we'll examine in this video starting with the greater social acceptance of same-sex relationships in the UK a second factor has been the changes in legislation that have made same-sex relationships more common in society a third reason is the

for the increase in same-sex relationships is the change in people's attitudes towards sexuality and the final reason we will examine focuses on the changing representations of the LGBTQ community within the media one of the main reasons for the rise in same-sex relationships has been the greater social acceptance of non-heterosexual lifestyles and the

acceptance of same-sex relationships this isn't party to processes such as secularization with people moving away from collective moral judgements formed by organized religion while some religions have expressed concern over the greater acceptance of same-sex relationships people have started to reject these ideas in the form of a more humanistic principle the view that

relationships are between two consenting adults who have an emotional connection is more common than the traditional views of relationships being only between males and females changes in these attitudes are in no small part due to the work of LGBTQ activists such as Stonewall we have fought to normalize relationships between consenting adults regardless of the gender orientation or